John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley

Dr John Henderson Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley, CBE, MA, DM, FRCP, FRCS, FRCGP, FRACGP (3 July 1905 – 28 December 1987) was a British general practitioner who founded the Royal College of General Practitioners.

He was born in India, the son of a surgeon, and educated at Charterhouse School and Balliol College, Oxford. After qualifying in 1931 he became house surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, later becoming house physician at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London. During the Second World War he served as a medical specialist in the Royal Air Force with the rank of Wing-Commander. After the war he opted to enter General Practice and set up his own premises in Sloane Street, London. He was instrumental in establishing the College of General Practitioners in 1952, which was granted the Royal prefix in 1967, serving as its President from 1967 to 1970.^[1]

He was President of the Hunterian Society in 1953, of the Section of General Practice at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1956, of the Harveian Society in 1970 and of the Medical Society of London in 1973.^[1] In 1973 he was made a life peer as Baron Hunt of Fawley, of Fawley in the County of Buckingham, the first General Practitioner to be so honoured.^[2]

He died in 1987 after suffering for many years from Parkinson's disease. He had married Elisabeth Evill and had three sons (one of whom died in infancy) and two daughters. Both his sons also became doctors.

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